Hurricane Matthew is wet, wild and weird. Meteorologists say its path has been harder to pin down than that of other storms, but Matthew is definitely dangerous and might stick around to bedevil the Southeast coast for a week or so.
When 15-year-old Centennial Hills resident Jack Murphy’s teacher told his National Honor Society group to pick projects, he knew exactly what he wanted to do: give toys to those stuck in Summerlin Hospital’s Pediatric Unit.
For 15 years, Metropolitan Police Department Lt. Nick Farese has gotten to know the Las Vegas Valley inside out. After five years of working as an organized crime bureau field training sergeant for the Southeast Area Command, Farese was promoted to lieutenant and moved to the Northwest Area Command where he oversees four investigative squads, the community-oriented police section, problem-solving unit, and the administrative functions of command.
Ever wanted to see the political stars of North Las Vegas perform on stage? In a mock-up of the hit TV show “Dancing with the Stars,” the North Las Vegas Ballet Theater plans to present “Dancing with the North Las Vegas Stars Gala” at 7 p.m. Oct. 13 at the Aliante.
From pumpkin patches to haunted houses, fall is in full swing.
Music powers potential. That was the message Judith Pinkerton, music therapist at American Addiction Centers and founder of Music4Life, left the student body with at the Hands on Ideas event at Clark High School Sept. 9.
The First Friday arts festival is set to celebrate its 14th anniversary by bringing together people with its theme for October, One World Through Art. The theme reflects and honors the LGBT community’s celebration of National Coming Out Weekend.
Once again, knights, barbarians, Roman legionaries, elves and more pirates than you can shake a well-corseted bodice at will be invading Sunset Park, and park officials couldn’t be happier about it.
National Fire Prevention Week is Oct. 9-15, and firefighters across the nation are trying to get the word out on how people can save themselves and their property from preventable fires.
Firefighters are usually heroes with hoses. But at the annual Girl Scouts of Southern Nevada Dessert Before Dinner gala Sept. 10 at Caesars Palace, a firefighter offered more than his firefighting skills to bring in $30,000 for the cause. Jonathan McBreen and his team at Clark County Fire Department Station 34, 4480 W. Oquendo Road, offered a package with dinner for a group of six for the gala auction.
On Sept. 24, Project GREEN: Friends of Pittman Wash organized volunteers to do a variety of tasks along the Pittman Wash trail in Henderson in honor of National Public Lands Day. Before they began, a recent storm had left the trail unrecognizable.
Wanting to provide alternative treatments to Las Vegas Valley veterans, Imagine NOW (Nurturing Our Warriors) is raising money to open a center that uses hyperbaric chambers. The organization said the chambers could treat issues such as post-traumatic stress disorder and traumatic brain injury.
Dr. David Henderson doesn’t mind if he’s considered the driving force for pushing for spay and neuter legislation in Nevada.
Come spring 2o17, northwest Las Vegas resident Jordyn Preston, 16, will have the chance to play tourist in London thanks to the Make-A-Wish Foundation. The group is granting her wish trip, which will include her parents and three other family members, after she underwent liver transplant surgery in September 2015.
Sometimes in life, you have to lose something to find something better. Rosie Mercado knows that statement all too well. She feels like she’s lost a whole person since her weight loss journey began.
The National Park Service announced Wednesday that the Historic Railroad Trail and part of the River Mountains Loop Trail at Lake Mead will be temporarily closed for improvements.
A Kingman police spokeswoman said detective Dennis Gilbert was released Wednesday and was resting comfortably at home. An The independent investigation of the officer-involved shooting that fatally wounded Jeffrey Cave, 53, continues.
An analysis of mortality and population data covering about 40 countries indicated humankind may already have hit its longevity ceiling.
Sean Hannity lashed out at his Fox News colleague Megyn Kelly on Twitter Wednesday night, saying that she “clearly” supports Hillary Clinton in response to comments Kelly made during her program earlier that night.
With phone lines down and bridges wiped out, rescue workers are only now starting to find out what happened when Hurricane Matthew slammed into Haiti as Category 4 storm with 145 mph winds.
A personal-injury law firm is building a new headquarters in downtown Las Vegas, part of a growing tally of construction projects in the area.
A federal judge has ordered former top CIA officials to sit for depositions in a lawsuit brought against two psychologists who designed the agency’s harsh interrogation methods in the war on terror, an action the federal government called unprecedented.
The aspens at Mount Charleston are putting on a display of vibrant fall colors.